2020 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Hugh Rockoff would like to thank the following for making the virtual 2020 meeting a success:
Program Committee—Eugene White (chair), Sumner LaCroix, Richard Grossman, Kim Oosterlink, Sarah Quincy
Local Arrangements Committee—Karen Clay, Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh, Edson Severini, Andy Ferrara
Rutgers University and Rutgers Economics Department
Rutgers University Graduate Student Assistants: Mriga Bansal Andrew Garib, and Weinan Yan
Princeton University Press and Melissa Burton
Global Financial Data and Mike Cerneant
Cambridge University Press
Michael Haupert—Executive Director, EHA
Tammy Netwal—Assistant to the Executive Director
Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator
Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Riikka Haukka—Assistant to the Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Jeremy Land—Meetings Coordinator-Elect, EHA
Evan Wallace—Conference Assistant
Debbie McCann—W4Sight
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Sriya Anbil, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York–Queens College
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
Liang Bai, University of Edinburgh
Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University
Emilie Bonhoure, Paris School of Economics
Leah Boustan, Princeton University
Steve Broadberry, University of Oxford
Gillian Brunet, Wesleyan University
Adam Brzezinski, University of Oxford
Joyce Burnett, Wabash College
Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis
William Collins, Vanderbilt University
Chris Colvin, Queen’s University Belfast
Gustavo Cortes, University of Florida
Bill Craighead, U.S. Air Force Academy
Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Edelstein, City University of New York–Queens College
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis
James Feigenbaum, Boston University
George Fenton, University of Michigan
Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Juan Flores, University of Geneva
Caroline Fohlin, Emory University
German Forero-Laverde, Universidad Externado de Columbia
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced
Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales
Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin
Carlos Hernandez, Universidad de los Andes
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Phillip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Matthew Jaremski, Utah State University
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College
Jane Knodell, University of Vermont
Matthijs Korevaar, Maastricht University
Alice Kügler, University College London
Jean Lacroix, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
Robert Margo, Boston University
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Chris Minns, London School of Economics
David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Petra Moser, New York University
Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasília
Alain Naef, University of California, Berkeley
Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University of Ohio
Craig Palsson, Utah State University
Georges Pantelopoulos, Hunter Research Foundation Centre
Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley
Kilian Rieder, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Samuel Segura Cobos, Tel Aviv University
Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark
Richard Steckel, The Ohio State University
Rebecca Stuart, University of Neuchâtel
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University of Ohio
Gertjan Verdickt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee
Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College
Zachary Ward, Baylor University
Marc Weidenmeier, Chapman University
David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Kaspar Zimmermann, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
2021 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 29–31 OCTOBER 2021
The eighty-first annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Tucson, Arizona on 29–31 October 2021. The theme of the meeting is “Rules, Organizations, and Governments: Institutions and Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: EARLY INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Mattia Bertazzini, University of Oxford, Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Leander Heldring, Northwestern University, “The Economic Origins of Government”
Pier Paolo Creanza, Princeton University, “Institutions, Trade and Growth: Ancient Case of Proxenia”
Antonio Iodice, University of Exeter/University of Genoa, “Innovation in Disguise: GA Rules and Institutional Development in the Republic of Genoa (1590–1700)”
SESSION 2: HISTORICAL LABOR MARKETS
Michael Poyker, University of Nottingham, and Riccardo Marchingiglio, Analysis Group, “The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation”
Judy Zara Stephenson, University College London, Meredith Paker, University of Oxford, and Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics, “Monopsony in Early Modern Labor Markets”
Lionel Kesztenbaum, Paris School of Economics, and Victor Gay, Toulouse School of Economics, “Collateral Damage? How World War One Changed the Way Women Work”
SECTION 3: MERITOCRATIC REFORMS AND ELITES
Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis, and Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis, “Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”
Jean Lacroix, University of Paris-Saclay, Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge, and Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Université Libre de Bruxelles, “The Origins of Elite Persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France”
Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced, and Raymond Kim, University of California, Merced, “Making a Police Officer: Police Quality after the Spoils System in the Urban U.S.”
SESSION 4: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND ITS LEGACIES
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine, Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis, and Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine, “Labor Market Scarring in the Very Long Run: Evidence from Large-Scale Linked Microdata”
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University, “Income Shocks and Housing Spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus”
Gabriel Mathy, American University, and Vasudeva Ramaswamy, American University, “The Huey Long Spending Program in Louisiana during the Great Depression: Why Were Fiscal Multipliers So Low?”
SESSION 5: MORTALITY RISK AND INSURANCE
Gertjan Verdickt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Gustavo Cortes, Warrington College of Business, “Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Kill the U.S. Life Insurance Industry?”
Philipp Jaeger, RWI-Leibniz Institute, “Can Pensions Save Lives? Evidence from the Introduction of Old-Age Assistance in the UK”
Ezra Gabriel Goldstein, Florida State University, “The Long-Run Effect of Parental Death: Evidence from Mining Accidents”
SESSION 6: AMERICAN SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACIES
C. Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan, and Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, “The Economic Effects of American Slavery, Redux: Tests at the Border”
Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan, and Nina Banks, Bucknell University, “A Nation of Laws”
John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Creative Capacity in a Slave Economy: Invention and Innovation in Southern Cities before the Civil War”
SESSION 7: PROTECTIONISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Stephen Redding, Princeton University, Stephen Heblich, University of Toronto, and Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol, “Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Corn Laws”
Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University, Kirsten Wandschneider, University of Vienna, and Kevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi, “The Smoot-Hawley Trade War”
Vinzent Ostermeyer, Lund University, “Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Swedish Firms in the Late 19th-Century”
SESSION 8: AGRICULTURE, INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH
Itzchak Raz, Hebrew University, “Learning Is Caring: Soil Heterogeneity, Social Learning and the Formation of Close-knit Communities”
Aparna Howlader, Princeton University, “The Role of Local Environmental Institutions in Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Conservation Districts in the Great Plains”
Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech, and Matthew T. Gregg, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, “A New Institutional History of Allotment: Evidence from the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1904–1937”
SESSION 9: RACIAL SEGREGATION AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Yale School of Management, and Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver, “The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap”
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley, Haas, and Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, “The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson”
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “World War II and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement”
SESSION 10: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONS
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Institutions Are Not Fundamental”
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Daniel Seligson, Independent Scholar, “Nature and Culture in Economic History”
Lee J. Alston, Indiana University, Marie Duggan, Keene State College, and Julio Ramos, Penn State University, “Spanish Missions and Their Impact on Native Americans in the Southwest and California”
SESSION 11: FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College, and Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, “Financing Industrialization in Russia and Germany”
Chenzi Xu, Stanford University, and He Yang, Amazon, “Monetizing the Economy: National Banks and Local Economic Development”
Sasha Indarte, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets”
SESSION 12: INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY AND ASSORTATIVE MATING
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, “Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Mobility, England, 1837–2020”
Jennifer Withrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Farm Crisis and Marriageable Men: Changes in Farm Tenure Mobility and Family Formation during the U.S. Farm Crisis of the 1920s and 1930s”
Matthew Curtis, University of California, Davis, “The Her in Inheritance: Marriage and Mobility in Quebec 1800–1970”
SESSION 13: INSTITUTIONS AND CHINESE DEVELOPMENT
Xin Nong, University of Texas at Austin, “Informal Succession Institutions and Autocratic Survival: Evidence from Ancient China”
Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore, Jiahua Che, China Europe International Business School, and John K.-H. Quah, John Hopkins University, “Aristocrats and Bureaucrats”
Beatriz Simon-Yarza, University of Navarra, “The Changing Wheels Hypothesis. Corruption and Development: Evidence from China”
SESSION 14: ORIGINS OF INNOVATION
Shmuel San, New York University, “Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Abrogation of the Bracero Program in 1964”
Felix Poege, Max Planck Institute, “Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben”
Jinlin Wei, University of Warwick, “Financial Development and Patents during the First Industrial Revolution: England and Wales”
SESSION 15: VIOLENCE AND COERCION
Felix S. F. Schaff, London School of Economics, “Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400–1800)”
Michiel De Haas, Wageningen University, and Bram van Besouw, Erasmus University, “Coercion or Adaptation? Expanding African Commodity Exports during the Great Depression”
Saumitra Jha, Stanford University, Julia Cage, Sciences Po, and Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales, “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France”
SESSION 16: MIGRATION AND ITS EFFECTS
Gianluca Russo, University of Pompeu Fabra, Nicola Fontana, London School of Economics, Marco Manacorda, Queen Mary University, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “Emigration and Economic Development: Evidence from the Italian Mass Migration”
Vasily Rusanov, New York University, “Internal Migration and the Diffusion of Schooling in the US”
Alexander Persaud, University of Richmond, “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire’s Money Orders”
SESSION 17: URBANIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin, and Alan de Bromhead, Queen’s University Belfast, “Rooted to the Soil: Social Housing and Population in Ireland since 1911”
John Brown, Clark University, and David Cuberes, Clark University, “The Birth and Persistence of Cities: First and Second Nature in Oklahoma’s Urban Development”
Eric Melander, University of Namur, “Transportation Technology, Individual Mobility and Social Mobilization”
SESSION 18: TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Bjoern Brey, University of Nottingham, “The Long-Run Gains from the Early Adoption of Electricity”
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles, and Bo Li, Tsinghua University, “Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance”
Michael Rubens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/University of California, Los Angeles, “Management, Productivity, and Technology Choices: Evidence from U.S. Mining Schools”
